Flipkart CEO Bansal's email account hacked

Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 01:53 PM

E-Commerce giant Flipkart founder CEO Bunny Bansal's email has been hacked through servers in Russia and the hackers from Canada and Hongkong are demanding that the company pay them $80,000 immediately or face the consequences.

To register their hacking, the Russian hackers sent two emails to the company CFO Sanjay Baveja through the hacked account. Surprised by the development, Baveja rushed to the CEO and they realised that Bansal's account had been hacked.

In the emails, they demanded that the money be put in their accounts immediately.

Bunny Bansal reported the matter to the cyber cell of the Bangalore police.

Baveja is reported to have received the hackers' email at 11.33 am on March 1.

Russia and China are notorious for hacking. However, hacking is said to be no big deal. E-commerce companies pride themselves about 64-bit protection and so on. But if their CEO's ID is hacked, they should sit up and protect their own and client's interest.